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International scientific organizations

  • UNESCOThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization began its life in the shadow of a global war. A League of Nations resolution on the 21st…
  • World Meteorological OrganizationThe year 1873 marked the founding of the International Meteorological Organization. This group operated as a nongovernmental forum for exchanging weather…
  • International Committee on Intellectual CooperationThe International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation opened its first session on the 1st of August 1922 in Geneva. Henri Bergson presided over a group…
  • International Union of Pure and Applied PhysicsThe year 1922 marked a turning point for global physics when thirteen nations gathered in Brussels to establish the International Union of Pure and Applied…
  • World Academy of Art and ScienceOn the 2nd of August 1939, a letter drafted by Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein reached Franklin D. Roosevelt with urgent news about uranium fission…
  • International Astronomical UnionThe International Astronomical Union opened its doors on the 28th of July 1919 in Brussels, Belgium. This meeting marked a new era for global astronomy after…